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Israel Gets Ready for Yom Kippur

Israel is spending Friday preparing for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. The holiday will begin at 4:41 p.m. in Jerusalem.Police have upped their alert across the country, particularly near synagogues, which are expected to be crowded beginning on Friday evening. Paramedics are on alert as well, and are prepared to deal with any emergencies that may ...

Israel: Gaza aid convoy can unload cargo in Ashdod for inspection

Israel on Thursday said a flotilla of activist aid boats bound for Gaza was an “outright provocation,” saying however that the organizers of the aid convoy were invited to unload their cargo at the Israeli port of Ashdod, where it would be transferred to Gaza following an inspection. The “Freedom Flotilla” consists of nine ships loaded with 10,000 tons of ...

Israel faces int’l fury over flotilla

Israel’s top officials worked round the clock Monday to quell worldwide censure against its pre-dawn raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in which 10 activists were killed. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu cut short his visit to North America and canceled his much-anticipated meeting with US President Barack Obama to head back to Israel, while the UN Security Council convened an emergency ...

Israel faces challenges in rise of haredim

Demographers now estimate about a third of last year’s Jewish babies were born into the ultra-Orthodox community, an insular and devout minority that has long been at loggerheads with the rest of the increasingly modern and prosperous country.Ultra-Orthodox Jews – known in Hebrew as “haredim,” or “those who tremble” before God – have a birthrate far higher than that of ...

Israel – Emmanuel Compromise Approved; Parents Released

A compromise proposal enabling the release of the parents of the Emmanuel students was approved Sunday by the High Court of Justice, after being presented by the parents and petitioners with the approval of the State Prosecutor’s Office. The judges ruled that the incarcerated parents would be released on Sunday.Read More: @ vosizneias.comTags: compromise approved parents released, israel emmanuel compromise approvedYou might also ...

Israel denies report it offered nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa

Israel described as baseless on Monday reported findings in a new book that it offered to sell nuclear warheads to South Africa in 1975. Britain’s Guardian newspaper said documents uncovered by a U.S. academic in research for a book on Israel’s ties with South Africa’s then-white minority government, provided the first official documentary evidence the Jewish state has nuclear arms.Read ...

Israel Conducts ‘Fly-Out’ for Flotilla Activists

Israel has turned the tables on flotilla activists and is conducting a “fly-out” deportation of activists who tried to sail to Gaza Wednesday, less than two weeks after a “fly-in” by activists succeeded in little more than gaining a blub in the media.One of the pro-Hamas supporters who was on the “fly-in” will participated in the “fly-out” Wednesday after the ...

Israel can’t have peace and settlements at same time

Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit said Wednesday that the construction of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank contradicted the search for peace.“Israel should realize that the continuation of the two processes is impossible,” Bakhit said during a meeting with the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, according to a statement from the ...

Israel asks jailed former minister to help Katsav acclimate to prison life

Former Minister and current prison inmate Shlomo Benizri has been asked by senior Israel Prisons Service officials to help former President Moshe Katsav to become accustomed to life in jail − if the latter begins his sentence soon.Benizri, who was jailed in 2009 for four years for bribery and other offenses, and is serving his time in the wing for ...

Israel approves plan to relocate 30,000 Bedouin from unrecognized villages

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet on Sunday approved a plan to relocate tens of thousands of Bedouin from their unrecognized villages into settlements with official state status.The plan emerges from the Prawer Report, drafted to find a solution to the problem of unrecognized villages in the Negev.As part of the plan, some 20,000 to 30,000 Bedouon will be relocated to ...

Israel announces full diplomatic ties with South Sudan

The Foreign Ministry announced Thursday that Israel has established full diplomatic relations with the government of the newly UN-recognized South Sudan.“The practical aspects of the relations such as accrediting ambassadors will soon be discussed through the diplomatic channels,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.Read More: @ haaretz.comReaders found more information by searching for:Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln (1)You might also like:Egypt ...

Israel and PA Discuss Man-Made Gaza Island for Air and Seaports

Israel and the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority have discussed building air and seaports on a man-made island off Gaza which would exclude Hamas, according to Israel television Channel 2. The government has not commented on the report.The idea has been discussed for the past two months among senior officials and has won wide support, Channel 2 added. The proposed two-acre man-made island ...